Expertly

Work.io for Education
An online marketplace for schools to find experts not just a consultant

Regalii

Remittances via SMS (YC S13)
In Latin America, over $69 billion per year is remitted to 26 million families, most whom are in the bottom quintile of household income. However, this remittance process is expensive and outdated. Regalii enables Latino immigrants in the U.S. to send gift cards ...

Dating For A Cause

singles meet at charity events, non-profits raise $
Dating For A Cause provides a platform for singles to connect on causes they care about at charity-related events, while aiding non-profits and individual organizers to bring awareness and fundraise.

VOZ

high fashion meets global craftsmanship
VOZ unites fashion designers and master artisans to develop sophisticated, modern apparel and accessories for style-driven consumers who want to feel good about their purchases. Our products are ethically produced through fair trade practices using luxurious sustainable ...

iGiveMore

Kickstarter & Facebook w/awesome fundraising data viz
iGiveMore is a platform that helps nonprofits raise money online with easy to understand data visualizations and a gameified experience for supporters that motivates them to give and raise more money. Our analytics enable causes to optimize their fundraising strategy ...

Design With Benefits

design meets ethical online shopping
Design With Benefits is a social enterprise that sells clever, design-driven products at the intersection of design and social responsibility. Launched by two architects and a journalist, the online store curates products from small businesses that are making a ...

I-ELLA

Gilt Groupe meets Ebay
Named ‘Top 10 NYC Startups to Watch” by Time Inc., I-ELLA.com is the curated marketplace where stylish members can Buy, Borrow, Swap + Sell designer apparel, shoes, accessories, handbags and more. I-ELLA.com is a modern marketplace that caters to women. Tapping ...

Village Fishmonger

Local, Responsible Seafood.
Village Fishmonger takes the traditional neighborhood fishmonger concept to the next level with "boat-to-table" sourcing and a carefully curated selection of seafood. Our aim is to promote a local and sustainable seafood mission while still making buying and eating ...

Naadam Cashmere

'Farm-to-Table' for luxury fashion
A collaboration by two close friends, Naadam was founded in response to the expanding population of consumers who demand transparency and quality in manufacturing. We are a mission-driven luxury fashion label committed to responsibly sourcing and producing cashmere ...

Seeds

Payer conversion through social good
Seeds converts freemium gamers into paying customers using social good. Freemium games struggle to convert the 94% of players who never spend money. Seeds builds microlending into games to convert up to 33% more free users into paying customers - generating $25+ ...

People Capital

Disrupting Higher Education by Measuring its True Economic Value
Empowers consumers or lenders to make better decisions about education. The Human Capital Score™ (HCS) is an income risk engine driven by choices (e.g. school, major) and achievements (e.g. SAT, GPA). Built @ Wharton & Harvard. API Technology. People Capital, ...

GoodMouth, Inc.

Oral Care. Delivered.
GoodMouth is a subscription-based toothbrush delivery service dedicated to improving health and preventing disease, while also helping those in need. We provide consumers with the right brush at the right time, directly to their door. GoodMouth also partners ...

Pinkdingo

Better online giving.
Simple, proven and awesome technology that charities use to raise more money more efficiently. We don't solve all their problems. We solve one really well.

Kinvolved

Immediate communication among schools, families, & youth programs to boost attendance
Schools and youth programs use our app to record attendance, notify families and coaches of absence and lateness in real time via 2-way SMS, email, or phone call, and easily track behavioral patterns. Using our app, they instantly identify who misses class, when, ...

groundUP

Kickstarter meets SimCity
We're transforming how places are made. groundUP is a crowdfunding platform for urban development. We connect locals with innovative projects that are brought to life through the direct support of residents. We're enabling creators to leverage demand from the ...

Catchafire

Skills-based volunteer marketplace
As the world’s leading skills-based volunteer matching platform, Catchafire makes it easy for anyone to use their talents for good and provides nonprofits with access to affordable, high quality talent. Nonprofits that work with Catchafire’s skilled volunteers ...

CauseCart

Harness your online commerce for GOOD
CauseCart was created to show a more effective model than the Donation Model by harnessing a percentage of all the money spent online to raise funds for world changing causes. It is web browser extensions that are connected on the backend to a wide group of online ...

Gifts that Give

SHOP...GIVE...SHARE...
We are harnessing the power of social media to support causes around the world. 3 channels: e-commerce, f-commerce, & our exciting social commerce FB application. Offering a broad selection of upscale brands, shoppers get products they love & a tax deductible ...

HomeSkope

tell your home's story
Tell your home's story with HomeSkope.

Socstock

Kiva meets Kickstarter for Small Businesses
Socstock allows small businesses to raise capital from their community of customers. Instead of paying back in cash interest, they pay back their supporters in goods and services.

IDENTITI

Helping people dream better dreams
Social Network + Web TV + High-Impact Platform

The Giving Store

Apple Store for Causes
Nothing to buy but a better future. Giving Stores in high-traffic malls and shopping streets. Each location is designed as a gallery space (think Apple Store) with comfortable seating, with showcase areas dedicated to causes and giving "shoppers" an opportunity ...

givlet

We empower nonprofits to create, manage and track on-demand, online giving campaigns.
givlet helps nonprofits to do good, better. The givlet app is a fast and free way for nonprofits to create custom, on-demand fundraising campaigns anytime, anywhere. The current crop of fundraising technologies are arcane by today's standards - they don't work ...

FreeATM

Powering surcharge-free ATMs through a programmatic advertising exchange
FreeATM is a programmatic advertising exchange connecting brands and their agencies with independent ATM deployers, delivering completely surcharge-free ATM transactions for consumers. Our technology, allows us to leverage the digital screens of the ATM to deliver ...

Go Mighty

An influencer-led database of intentions and achievements
We are building a database of intentions that will connect doers and brands via a targeted e-commerce platform. Go Mighty is a self-expression, social platform for online influencers to achieve personally and professional by loading life lists, writing stories, ...

LetGive

The World's First Open Giving Platform Designed For Developers and Publishers
As the world’s first Open Giving Platform, LetGive enables developers to embed charitable giving across a wide range of online and mobile content, thereby engaging potential givers where they already are: on blogs, e-commerce sites, games, and mobile apps. This ...

Sandbox Network

Amicus

Turn supporters into fundraisers and advocates (YC S12)
Amicus allows nonprofits and universities to turn their supporters into fundraisers and advocates. Every year, non-profits spend $60 billion to raise $300 billion. That's 20 cents on the dollar. By enabling truly social outreach and fundraising, Amicus allows ...

psGive

Our award winning cause marketing engagement model improves brand awareness & reputation
psGive increases online revenue and reach through the design and management of online contests fueled by charity partnerships to harness the power of causes and crowds. More and more consumers buy and recommend brands that support causes they care about. psGive, ...

TLCengine - True Lifestyle Cost (TLC)

Real Time Total Monthly Cost of home ownership for your Lifestyle
TLCengine helps solve real problems for real people. Mortgages account for only 50% of the actual cost of home ownership, so where is the rest of it? That is what TLCengine solves for. We enable real-time solutions for home buyers and real estate agents by incorporating ...

SEAL Future Fund

A non-profit providing resources to equip Navy SEALs for success in the civilian world.
Navy SEALs are among the most highly trained individuals in the world. This fact is marked by their mental and physical ability to excel under extreme conditions while executing tasks whose outcomes are weighed against life and freedom. These individuals are required ...

Vendedy Corporation

An Ebay/Etsy hybrid marketplace for street vendors
Vendedy is a social enterprise tech startup that connects global consumers to the most remote street artisan designs. What started as a student blog conversation about digitizing the street vending industry is now a street art movement for the rural poor.  Vendedy ...

Wine for the World

Artisanal wine meets global good
Wine for the World helps artisanal winemakers from emerging economies break into the US market.  We lower barriers to entry through (1) high-profile partnerships with top US winemakers and (2) unique back-end logistical support, helping the "little guys" compete ...

Conscious Magazine

Culture. People. Community.

Worldmosh

The online project that makes traveling the world easier!
Our web platform is a fresh, and innovative approach to the travel social space....It is the first global network to encourage people to travel, share travel experiences, explore different cultures, and meet new people from around the globe. We hope to be at ...

MealTics

Crowdfunding meals from restaurants to local soup kitchens.
MealTics is an online platform that allows people to crowdfund meals from featured restaurants that get delivered to local soup kitchens and homeless shelters. Every month to show our appreciation we give away cool monthly prizes. After a goal of meals is reached, ...

barkloudly

match.com meets klout for the dog lovers
Barkloudly is an innovative way to connect shelters and rescues with dog lovers and volunteers. We reward dog lovers who give their time, share their homes, donate their dollars and create social awareness to help dogs and shelters in need. We strive to create ...

MPOWERD

B Corp Providing Micro Solar Solutions and Promoting Energy Equality
Luci is an inflatable, water-resistant bright LED solar lantern with 3 settings-collapsible,portable and able to retain 50% of its charge for 2 years inactive. Maintenance-free and suitable for all weather conditions. MPOWERD, a Benefit Corporation, founded in ...

Leverage

Revolutionize humanitarian organizations with technology
Leverage revolutionizes humanitarian organizations through application of modern technology and business practices. Our technology manages fund raising, surveys beneficiaries, designs projects for donor sign off, manages procurement, and performs monitoring and ...

Good Street

Changing the World One Quarter At a Time
Good St. is a subscription charity program making charitable giving easy and meaningful. You choose a daily donation starting at 25¢. We send out an email every morning with an overview of two charities addressing the 'Cause of the Day' in different ways. Simply ...

V

Digital Mobile Voting Platform
V is a digital platform that empowers us all, as members of civic, social, financial and political organizations, to directly influence the decisions that affect our every day lives. Whether as a corporate shareholder, religious congregant, union member or simply ...

SOWGi

Social Support Network
In life, who do you turn to when you’re faced with one of life’s many challenges? And who turns to you? The answer is your “social support network,” usually consisting of friends, family, co-workers, or a professional who can help. SOWGI is a social network that ...

krdts

What Really Matters
krdts is a revolutionary online platform dedicated to spreading goodness across the globe by creating a new unit of goodness, a “krdt” (pronounced credit). Here at krdts, we feel that any act of kindness should be recognized and rewarded. We are a confluence of ...

Vonvo

Google Hangouts meets KickStarter
Short for video convo, Vonvo is a real-time video event platform and online donation tool. It was designed specifically to help non-profits raise awareness and funds to fuel their programs. Vonvo brings non-profit marketing and fundraising efforts to a new level ...

Baking for Good

online bake sale
Baking for Good sells delicious brownies and cookies and gives 15% of every purchase to a cause the customer chooses. It's like sending flowers, but better. You can send our baked goods to anyone, for any reason, and you can tailor the cause to your recipient or ...

One Plus Love, Inc

A virtual mobile LGBTQ center
One + Love® is a virtual mobile LGBTQ center. One + Love® provides original content and aggregates news, articles, fashion trends, and webisodes. One + Love® users have mobile access to local LGBTQ events, an online community, businesses and entertainment. What ...

Yoink!

You can get a lot from giving...
Yoink! is a mobile and web-based free marketplace that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy about giving stuff away to friends, neighbours and even complete strangers. Unwanted items squatting in your house? Feel like tossing your freshly-baked muffins into a stranger’s ...

Truismo

Truismo connects people with socially responsible businesses and causes
Truismo is a mobile app that lets people discover socially responsible businesses around them, as well as the causes they support. Ever notice when brands and local businesses support causes you care about? Wish you could find more businesses that do the same? ...

Hoontos

Social Fundraising for local community Movements
Hoontos is a Social Think Tank and Social Fundraising network, which brings local people together with common Goals & Ideas for Change. Check out some of the Ideas Moving on Hoontos: Student Loan Relief- Sunergos is Moving to eliminate Student Loan Debt. By ...

Kindrid

Sparking Generosity
We build elegant tools to communicate and facilitate generosity. Kindrid has pioneered an innovative way to facilitate donations of any amount via SMS (Smart Giving). On the front end we provide the simplest way for donors to make gifts, on the back-end we provide ...

Brush Labs

Low-fee strategy consulting for startups.

MediaWire

A strategy-first approach to digital media and online marketing
MediaWire provides advising, facilitation, training, and coaching in social business strategy. Through our Online Business Marketing University, a joint programme with AMMA Marketing, you will learn how to leverage the power of digital media and online marketing ...

Village Green

Entrepreneurs share resources to get their needs met
Village Green is a web application for entrepreneurs to get their needs met through sharing. The application enables entrepreneurs and innovators to post what needs they have, and what resources they have to share, so as to help all innovators use sharing as means ...

Truismo

Discover socially responsible businesses
What if you knew that your local grocery store helped support life-saving disease research programs? Or that the money you spend at the coffee shop around the corner went to developing third-world countries? Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is becoming part ...

EBO Nexus

Connecting people to benefits they deserve
ABO (Access Benefits Online) is a sophisticated SaaS platform that empowers people by connecting them to vital supplemental benefits and services. ABO is an expert so the client doesn't have to be! People use ABO to screen for fifteen to twenty benefits (or more) ...

Print a Forest

Software - Print 100 pages. Plant a Tree.
The premise of Print a Forest is simple: Print 100 pages. Plant a tree. That’s it. All the person printing has to do is use our free computer software and be open to having a small message from a brand across the bottom of the page, a branded footnote from ...

Legítimo

Automated contracts in Spanish
Make personalized contracts on your phone in under 1 minute, in English or Spanish. Legitimo is specifically designed to legally protect people that live in primarily cash-based or Hispanic communities (over 60mm in America), because they are most likely to form ...

Classicl

Mobile micro-philanthropy
13.6% of Americans – more than 31.9 million people – attended at least one classical music concert in 2012, but we think that number should be higher. Every night, thousands of seats go unfilled in concert halls across the country. By connecting music lovers through ...

Develop Link

Linking healthcare professionals in emerging markets.
Develop Link provides tools to help medical aid efforts collaborate with local healthcare infrastructure in developing countries. We are piloting with a capacity planning tool so that resources allocated towards global health are appropriately distributed. This ...

Bone Broth Truck

Bone broth truck
Similar to a food truck, the Bone Broth Truck provides nourishing bone broth to those on the go -- health enthusiasts, CrossFit hard bodies, late-night party goers, & more. WHAT IS BONE BROTH? Bone broth consists of animal bones (grass-fed beef bone), onion, ...

Water Collective

McKinsey of Water Crisis
Water Collective brings life-lasting clean water through robust solutions and economic empowerment. Having a supportive economy is essential to keep a clean water source running. That's why we invest in clean water and economic growth, providing double the impact ...

NationSwell

Social impact journalism & events
NationSwell is a multi-platform media company that elevates and drives action behind solutions to America's greatest national challenges. We cover innovative ideas about governance, the environment, education, and national service from around the country. Our journalists ...

SCP - DESIGN EXCHANGE

Design/Architecture Meets Social Innovation
We provide design and architectural services at market rate for residential and commercial clients. For every project completed, we donate a project to an individual or organization in need through DESIGN EXCHANGE (DE). Ten (10) percent of every design project ...

BidKind

Online Charity Auctions
BidKind is an online charity auction site that raises funds for nonprofit organizations by offering users access to celebrities, prominent brands and unforgettable experiences. BidKind is a social enterprise that combines social bidding, entertainment and real-time ...

Natasha's Court

N*C organizes data to help workers create sustainable, actionable career plans.
N*C organizes data to empower individuals with the practical knowledge to make career transitions without losing ground. We diminish the skills gap by preparing workers for change. Our customized snapshot lets workers realistically assess their ability to compete ...

BPI Trading Group

Supply & Demand Business Model: Export/Import grains, coffee, bldg material US/Caribbean

Handshake

Free Trading with Shakes
Handshake allows you to trade for goods and services being offered member to member with shakes that you have earned from selling an offer, joining the site, adding friends and more. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Handshake/499688413386715 Twitter: https://twitter.com Web ...

OpenAction

Mapping software for some of the leading nonprofits and foundations in the US.
OpenAction is a social enterprise that maps and brings greater awareness to every social impact project in the world. Our application leverages smart technology and open data standards to offer a valuable marketing and connectivity tool for a wide array of users ...

SKINNYFATTIES

Necktie Tailoring Service
SKINNYFATTIES specializes in tailoring and designing neckties. Putting ties to good use since 2012. Free shipping worldwide.

Slumlordcity NYC

enter address, avoid slumlords
About SlumlordCityNYC: Finding housing in New York City on a limited budget can be overwhelmingly difficult; and, once you think you have found a place to live, getting information on your potential building and landlord, is even more complicated. That’s where ...

LOCAL

Social video platform for environmental innovators
LOCAL is a streaming video and social media channel and crowdsourced social app that embraces the power of thinking -- and acting -- locally. LOCAL's mission is to produce stories of locally based alternatives to the global consumer culture, turning such stories ...

Jointly

Mobile app that helps communities recover faster through self-organized disaster relief.
Peer-to-Peer Disaster Recovery. Jointly is a mobile app that helps communities self-organize disaster relief to recover faster and sustain long-term recovery. By directly connecting disaster victims with volunteers, Jointly allows individuals to request help through ...

Tiny Spark

Debating the Business of "Doing Good"
Tiny Spark is an in-depth interview program aimed at igniting debate about the Business of Doing Good. Hosted by a public radio veteran, Tiny Spark looks closely and critically at the trillion dollar non-profit sector, which continues to grow without sufficient ...

SERENE Social

An International Wellness, Philanthropy & Conscious Networking Community for Women

Chabonier

Let us treat you like the royalty you are.
We provide Private Chef services as well as bar and restaurant recovery systems.

Fairygodboss

We're a community of professional women who review our employers' benefits and culture

WEGO

Community powered urban safety
WEGO is the go-to place for urban safety, providing a dedicated platform for communities to work together to build safer cities. WEGO’s mission is to change the dynamics of personal safety, transforming it from an issue that’s addressed alone, to a community effort ...

CitiVegan

Organic vegan meal delivery service
CitiVegan's mission is to make eating a plant based diet easy and accessible to people. We do this by offering an organic, delicious, whole food based vegan meal delivery service. We will be incorporating diets focused on reversing heart disease based on the principles ...

Stonehill Educational Consultants

higher education consulting for international students
Stonehill Educational Consultants offers an immensely customized, student-oriented consulting service focused on the process of U.S. university admissions. We also believe in equal educational opportunity for all. As such, we offer our consulting services pro ...

Go Do!

Hands-on Experiential Learning Opportunities for Youth
Go Do! exists as both a youth development organization AND a social movement. We're inspiring a generation to "go do." We know that youth learn best through authentic, hands-on experiences versus those of the vicarious nature. We've made it our mission to create, ...

Faircare

Responsible employer matching service
We are building a resposible employer matching service that connects families with care needs (child care, elder care, housekeeping) with trained and vetted workers, based on terms that are fair and mutually beneficial. This provides workers with access to responsible ...

Modavanti LLC

Whole Foods of online fashion
Modavanti is an online retailer for stylish sustainable fashion. It is the one-stop destination for the socially conscious fashionista to find clothing that fits her values without sacrificing on style. Consumers can shop the newest brands, discover the hottest ...

Histoire

Online retailer of sustainable luxury
An online retailer of socially conscious home and lifestyle goods, Histoire provides a shopping destination for design-savvy consumers who enjoy beautiful, unique products that are also sustainable. Histoire redefines luxury by embracing a dual mission of celebrating ...

Ulula

Honest Data. Better Business. Social Impact.
Ulula enables industry leaders in oil, gas, and mining to predict and prevent environmental, social, and governance risks by turning mobile crowd-sourced data from stakeholders into actionable intelligence. Ulula transforms the art of managing “above ground” risks ...

everyonetobuy

laser
A laser pointer is a small laser designed to highlight something of interest by projecting a small bright spot of colored light onto it. The laser beam is not in itself visible from the side, but is visible as a result of light scattered by dust particles along ...